Case Study: Greenchoice achieves reliable service for 550,000 customers and faster backups with Veeam Availability Suite

Greenchoice Grows its Renewable Energy Business and Improves Service for 550,000 customers with Veeam and ExaGrid

Greenchoice, a Netherlands-based renewable energy supplier serving more than 550,000 households, businesses and public institutions, needed to maintain an “always on” IT posture as its business and data volumes grew by roughly 50% annually. Critical systems—smart metering, energy trading and customer support—could not tolerate long outages, but the company’s legacy backup solution was error-prone and slow, with restores taking hours and complex recovery processes during a migration to georedundant data centers and hybrid cloud scenarios.

Greenchoice deployed Veeam Availability Suite integrated with ExaGrid appliances across two sites to protect ~200 VMware VMs and 300 TB of data. The combined solution delivered ~4:1 deduplication (reducing storage by 75%), backups that run 5–6× faster, restores in minutes for critical systems, automated reporting and monitoring, and at least 20 hours saved per week in backup management—while providing scale-out capacity and planned Office 365 protection.

Greenchoice

Carlo Kleinloog

Network System Engineer